Winter Mercato 2015 (4 Viewers)

[Hust]

berardi is not a trequartista though... and I can't see us switching to a 4-3-3 on a more permanent basis. let's assume allegri is sticking with his favoured 4-3-1-2 for next season and berardi and zaza were our biggest signings at 30 mill combined would you call that a good transfer campaign or not?

Think outside the box here and evaluate everything: We switched to the 433 to experiment in the Coppa ONCE we got Pepe back to fitness which should lead you to believe he didn't do it sooner simply because we didn't, in Allegri's opinion, have the right players to make it work WITHOUT Pepe. He said he will take his time with Coman so we can check him off the list. Morata "could" be tried as a winger but he is a striker so probably safe to take him off the list.

We are strolling to a 4th title at this point with Roma imploding so why change the system for a 3rd time in one season? Bring Berardi back, which we will, will give us the players necessary for a 433 or any other formation we wish to play between 433, 4312, 4321, or 352...that's insane because next season we could easily launch any formation we want depending on the opponent and providing we stay injury free. Thats actually incredible when you think about it because the kinds of players we have been bringing can give us a strong formation in 4 different ways.

Now to Zaza. Hate him or love him he will be better in THIS team than Llorente.

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Allegri/Marotta, can't remember which, said our injured players coming back are like new signings.

Barzagli
Caceres
Pepe
And hopefully soon Asamoah.

There was no point spending money this winter. None at all.

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Only problem, which Sergio has said quite a few times, is that it would be nice to be able to give Tevez a break because we are solid everywhere else, minus Llorente's performance.

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What fascinates me the most with some people here is the obvious great things about this squad go completely ignored or brushed under the rug because everything isn't "perfect" which by default in their logic means it was a disaster and Marotta is some provincial GM that has taken us as far as we can go.

 

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[zizinho]

Spending what's that close to 80M and the only players we should be spending any of that on is Mkhi and Rugani. If we spend that much on those players we can stfu about not having a big enough budget, a proper top team would do some serious business with that.

tht is some serious business. a 20-25M range AM (Mkhitaryan most likely, maybe someone else will pop up before the summer), 2 biggest youth prospects in the country in Rugani and Berardi, a decent striker (better than current Llorente > improvement) in Zaza, (possibly) Vrsaljko who plays great for Sassuolo this season, and using our option(s) to buy the player(s) we loaned last summer. depending on the AM we sign i rate this as a 7/10 - 10/10 mercato...

 

[Mark]

@Mark Make introduction threads for the teenagers that we signed

we signed so many + I feel lazy today.

 

[Hust]

tht is some serious business. a 20-25M range AM (Mkhitaryan most likely, maybe someone else will pop up before the summer), 2 biggest youth prospects in the country in Rugani and Berardi, a decent striker (better than current Llorente > improvement) in Zaza, (possibly) Vrsaljko who plays great for Sassuolo this season, and using our option(s) to buy the player(s) we loaned last summer. depending on the AM we sign i rate this as a 7/10 - 10/10 mercato...

-We got Rugani for what, 4.5m to be paid over 4 years? What a steal
-Berardi comes for 15m, not sure what Juve will do with Zaza.
-Mkhitaryan comes thanks to Raiola relationship (which people don't seem to want to acknowledge as a good thing)
-Asamoah back from injury.
-Barzagli back from injury
-Stuaro, can't wait to see how (if) he develops but for the fee and the potential we should be happy this went through.

Out of that we potentially have a CB that can walk into this team and contribute and two players (Berardi & Mkhitaryan) to improve our starting 11 but most importantly our attack. Two players that are painful to defend against.

And possibly all of this without sales of any key players.

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I feel like badass is working on a massive post. He is too quiet.

 

[Pirlo's Beard]

tht is some serious business. a 20-25M range AM (Mkhitaryan most likely, maybe someone else will pop up before the summer), 2 biggest youth prospects in the country in Rugani and Berardi, a decent striker (better than current Llorente > improvement) in Zaza, (possibly) Vrsaljko who plays great for Sassuolo this season, and using our option(s) to buy the player(s) we loaned last summer. depending on the AM we sign i rate this as a 7/10 - 10/10 mercato...

Half of this forum would be a Llorente improvement, we should still aim higher


We still fail massively to address our ridiculous lack of width, and we spend 30M on players we could have purchased properly a long time ago, and loaned them out like any normal club would do, and avoided a ridiculous 30M fee for 2 of them.

 

[JuveJay]

we signed so many + I feel lazy today.

Filipe:

My input. He's a central defender

 

[Hust]

Half of this forum would be a Llorente improvement, we should still aim higher


We still fail massively to address our ridiculous lack of width, and we spend 30M on players we could have purchased properly a long time ago, and loaned them out like any normal club would do, and avoided a ridiculous 30M fee for 2 of them.

People keep mentioning width when Allegri doesn't seem to care for it. Why not address the players Allegri wants/needs versus what we all think we want/need?

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Filipe:

My input. He's a central defender

il nuovo Rugani.

 

[Pirlo's Beard]

Whether Allegri cares about width or not, it's an important part of football at the highest level. I've just about had my fill of watching our full backs kill our attacks because they're trying to do a wingers job.

 

[Mark]

Filipe:

My input. He's a central defender

he is.